TOUR CUT SHORT
BATANA PARTY RETURNING football teams and band (Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 18. Wiremu Ratana and party, whose North Auckland tour was cut short by the enforcement of the health regulations designed to prevent the spread of sleepy sickness, passed through Auckland to-day on their way home. There are over 50 in the party, including two football teams, a brass band, and a number of women. A limousine and three trucks are carrying the party, one of whom ( said that the next stopping-place would probably be Matajnata. The football teams would play about six more matches before reaching home. Mr. _E. T. Tirikatene, M.P., said that the Maoris had not defied the law in the north, and force was not necessary, as a few tactful words by Ratana would “do the trick.”
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 200, 19 August 1933, Page 6
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